Here's a way to do it using HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath 
use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

my $html = '<div><ul class="test">                 
<li><a href="/www/?category=Earth">earth_text</a></li>
<li><a href="/www/?category=Space">space_text</a></li></div>';

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;
$tree->parse($html);
$tree->eof;

my @values = $tree->findvalues('//li/a');
print "$_\n" for @values;

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Or if you need more specific selection, or other info returned 
my @links = $tree->findnodes('//ul[@class="test"]/li/a') ;
for my $link (@links) {
    print $link->attr('href'), "\n";
    print $link->as_text, "\n";
}

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In reply to Re: searching for one or more instances of text between tags by tangent
in thread searching for one or more instances of text between tags by kachunyu

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